CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITIES
Focuses on recently arrived Asian immigrant groups and historically excluded groups to highlight their exclusion from mainstream Asian America. Covers how Asian American-based identity politics has reduced the experiences of these groups to categorical understandings of race, citizenship, nationality, class, immigration, and others. Uses intersectional lens to analyze their experiences with the goal of expanding what it means to be "Asian American." Lastly, examines how Asian American-based identity politics has influenced conversations around higher education, politics, and race relations.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze how recent waves of Asian immigration and the inclusion of historically excluded groups has confronted Asian American-based identity politics and the racialization that Asian Americans face. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine how the demographic changes in Asian America have shifted its socioeconomic landscape and consequently impacted issues around higher education, political engagement and race relations with other populations of color. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify how the changing demographics of Asian America creates significant nuances in how we understand the larger Asian American experience. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Collaborate with peers about how the diversity of Asian America is connected to the histories of other communities of color and their treatment in the United States through group work and activities. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze how recent waves of Asian immigration and the inclusion of historically excluded groups has confronted Asian American-based identity politics and the racialization that Asian Americans face. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine how the demographic changes in Asian America have shifted its socioeconomic landscape and consequently impacted issues around higher education, political engagement and race relations with other populations of color. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify how the changing demographics of Asian America creates significant nuances in how we understand the larger Asian American experience. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Collaborate with peers about how the diversity of Asian America is connected to the histories of other communities of color and their treatment in the United States through group work and activities. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027